Orchard-heater.



E. 0. CARVER.

ORCHARD HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1911.

1,027,989. Patented May 28, 1912 Suva/H501 EDWIN O. CARVER, OF CARTERS, FLORIDA.

ORCHARD-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

v Patented May 28,1912.

Application filed August 5, 1911. Serial No. 642,449.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. CARVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carters, in the county of Polk and State of Florida, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Orchard-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to orchard heaters and has for an object to provide a device .of the class-adapted to burn a liquid fuel and to supply a constant volumeof the liquid fuel to the burner for a considerable length of time.

A further object of the invention is to provide a receptacle for the liquid fuel with a burner surroundin the receptacle and with a deflector positioned above the burner adapted to protect the receptacle from theheat of the flame and also to spread the products of combustion from the burner.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed. a

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view of the is a diametrical vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 1s a top plan view of the burner element.

Like characters of reference designate cor- -responding parts throughout the several views. l

The improved burner which forms the subject matter of this application comprises an oil feeding reservoir 10 constructed sim- -'ply as an open ended .can or the like having one or more notches or serrations 11 cut in the peripheral edge of such reservoir. A

burner element, shown as a whole at Fig. 3,

is provided having a central receptacle 12 ing reservoir 10 may be inverted therein, as shown at Fig. 2 and with passages or troughs 13 leading outwardly and radially therefrom to a circular burner trough 14.

It'will be apparent that with the'oil feeding reservoir 10 filled with liquid fuel as oil and inverted in the circular receptacle 12' oil will flow from the reservoir -through the passages 13 into the annular'burner trough 14 until the height of the oil in such trough is above the top of the openings 11 in the edges of the reservoir when the oil will stop flowing, being supported in the reservoir by atmospheric pressure. The oil in the trough 14 and the troughs 13 is now ignited in any.

Fig. 2

- formed conical as shown with a rolled rim 16 and with a central cylindrical sleeve 17 proportloned to embrace the oil feeding reservoir 10 and adjustable vertically upon the reservoir and retained either by friction or by a set screw 18 so that the deflector may be adjusted vertically as found desirable.

In using the device a slight trench is made in the ground in any convenient manner, as by dragging the heel of the boot of the wearer, to admit air to the openings between the central receptacle 12, the radial troughs 13 and the burner trough 14 so that the air is supplied to furnish oxygen to the flame.

The space between-the deflector 15 and sleeve 17 is also-employed for retaining water to be evaporated by the heat from the burner to produce vapor and distribute the heat generated.

. I claim:

1. In an orchard heater, a burner comprising a central receptacle, a concentric annular trough, troughs leading from the central receptacle to the .said annular trough and an oil feeding reservoir adapted to be inverted in the central receptacle.

2. In an orchard heater, a central receptacle, an annular trough surrounding the central receptacle, conduits leading from the central receptacle to the annular trough and an oil feeding reservoir adapted to be inverted in the central receptacle.

. 3. In an orchard heater, a central receptacle, an annular burner trough surrounding the central receptacle, troughs leading from the central receptacle to the annular trough, an oil feeding reservoir provided with apert'uresin its edgesadapted to be inverted in the central receptacle and a deflector positioned above the annular trough.

4. In an orchard heater, a central receptacle, an annular burner trough concentrically surrounding "the central receptacle, radial conduits leading from the central recept-acle to the annular trough, an oil feeding reservoir adapted to be inverted in the central receptacle, a deflector carried by the oil feeding reservoir positioned above the burner and means to adjust the deflector vertically upon the oil feeding reservoir.

' 5. In an orchard heater, a central receptacle,-= radial troughs extending outwardly deflector positioned above the annular 10 from the receptacle, an annular trough contrough.

centric with the receptacle and communicat- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature ing with the radial troughs, an oil feeding in presence of two witnesses reservoir having apertures formed in its edges proportioned to be inverted in the EDWIN CARVER central receptacle, a conical deflector ver- Witnesses:

. tically slidable upon the-oil feeding reser- GEORGE O. .MOLAIN,

voir and a rolled periphery formed upon the J OHN PA'ITERSON. 

